What caught my attention was that some industrious individual (@travisketchum) had left a comment on the TechCrunch article that he had been doing some digging around on the website and had found a link to their development environment. What we found ourselves was that our retweet button Javascript and the WordPress plugin code seemed to have been directly copied from ours.

We are happy for others to learn from our endeavors and flattered by the copying but some of our more complex JavaScript was obfuscated to deter others from attempting to re-use our code. We take a dim view of trying to pass off our code especially when it is attempting to create a competitor.

We our seeking further legal advice and will be pursuing every avenue to protect the hard work of our team.

Can this be true? I’ve emailed Nick for more information, and I’ll be trying to get hold of Retweet.com’s COO, Tyson Quick, as well.

Update: I’ve been alerted to the following similarities in code between the Retweet.com and Tweetmeme.

This is an almost exact copy of Tweetmeme’s retweet button code. The word “tweetmeme” has been replaced with “retweet”. Note also the “rednose” reference: it refers to a now-defunct feature of Tweetmeme’s button.